Querying of date/datetime with year 1-999 is incorrect on some platforms

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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, sqlalchemy
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start with pyhive.common.ParamEscaper.escape_datetime and reproduce the issue using the supplied year-0001 table, timestamp, and SQLAlchemy query. Compare the formatted values produced with and without the year padding, then verify that the query returns the expected row on the affected platform.

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Description

Pyhive sqlachemy dialect can not do 'where' filtering for dates/timestamps with year lower than 1000 because leading zeros are omitted when %Y is used.
Years 1-999 are rare is real use, but may be used for relative timestamps for example, or when only time part is used.

This problem may appear on some systems depending of strftime implementation of system libraries. See https://bugs.python.org/issue13305

problematic method: pyhive.common.ParamEscaper.escape_datetime

This is a issue with python itself, but a workaround can be implemented for this case.
One solution is to use %04Y to set fixed with of 4, but it is also platform dependent.
Another is to use hack:

dt_str = '{:0>4}{}'.format(
    item.strftime('%Y'),
    item.strftime(format_.lstrip('%Y'))
)

This should be portable.

Reproduce

CREATE TABLE DateTimeTable(
    date DATE,
    timestamp TIMESTAMP
);
insert into DateTimeTable values ('0001-01-01', '0001-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z');
from datetime import datetime
from sqlalchemy import MetaData

...
meta = MetaData()
meta.reflect(bind=dbfs_engine)

ts = datetime.strptime('0001-01-01T00:00:00.000000', "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f")
print(ts.strftime('%04Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f'))
print(ts.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f'))

table = meta.tables['datetimetable']
q = table.select(table.c['timestamp'] == ts)
q.bind = dbfs_engine
res = dbfs_engine.execute(q)

for r in res:
    print(r)
# Nothing here
# Expected 1 row
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